- Edward Albee
- Martin Amis
- Brooke Russell Astor
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Harold Bloom
- Ashley Bryan
- Robert Caro
- Julia Chang
- Johnnetta B. Cole
- Billy Collins
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- Jim Dine
- Rita Dove
- Jennifer Egan
- Nora Ephron
- Renee Fleming
- Shelby Foote
- John Hope Franklin
- Jonathan Franzen
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- Gao Xingjian
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Margaret J. Geller
- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr
- Annette Gordon-Reed
- Shirley Hazzard
- Robert Hughes
- Hilary Knight
- Tony Kushner
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Ming Cho Lee
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- Stacy Schiff
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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- Maurice Sendak
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- Billy Taylor
- Julie Taymor
- James D. Watson
- Christopher Wheeldon
- Elie Wiesel
- Isabel Wilkerson
- Oprah Winfrey
- George C. Wolfe
- Charles Wright
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 2013 Library Lions Pictured left to right: Tony Marx, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Martin Amis, Annette Gordon-Reed, Jennifer Egan 2009 Library Lions Pictured left to right: David Smith, Annie Proulx, Janice Moore-Smith, Paul LeClerc, Julia Chang, and Hilary Knight 2008 Honorees Pictured left to right: Ashley Bryan, Nora Ephron, Edward Albee, and Salman Rushdie 2007 Honorees Pictured left to right: Martin Scorsese, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tom Stoppard, and John Hope Franklin |
